Word: faction
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...L.D.P. heavyweight, Takeo Fukuda. Koizumi answered the phone, ran errands and dusted Fukuda's shoes. He finally took his father's place in 1972, but the years with Fukuda were well spent. For an L.D.P. baron, Fukuda was famously incorruptible, and Koizumi watched his mentor lose power to factions of the party that had perfected pork-barrel politics. Koizumi today rants about the waste in government spending largely because he watched his enemies in the biggest L.D.P. faction shove fat contracts to construction bosses who delivered votes and campaign war chests in return...
...camp. His antiestablishment streak developed under Fukuda, himself a bright, squeaky-clean policy wonk who frequently took on the LDP's most powerful clique, headed by Kakuei Tanaka and filled with politicians with cozy ties to special interest groups like construction bosses, farmers and war veterans. This is the faction most dependent on pork-barrel politics, campaign war chests and the obtaining of government largesse and protectionism in exchange for votes. "Fukuda was insulated from all the pork-barreling, and that had an effect on Koizumi," says Naoki Tanaka. Under Fukuda's tutelage, the future Prime Minister came to understand...
...Essential Harvest" mission is withdrawn, there are plenty of NATO troops in the region, and they've capable of giving the Macedonian government a lot more robust support than they have been up to now. What remains to be seen, then, is whether the NLA, or any faction among them, will choose to test NATO's will - and how the alliance will respond if its adopted role of Balkan enforcer is challenged...
...second faction, meanwhile, seeks an exemption for the cloning of embryos in the laboratory. They honor the march of science; they cite the potential advantages of embryonic stem cells created through cloning to treat diseases from Parkinson’s to diabetes. There’s something profoundly icky about cloning embryos—but there are also a lot of very bad arguments being used to attack it, and when medical advances might lie in the balance, it’s hard not to sympathize with victims who desperately seek a cure...
...Andang is commonly known) carried out a kidnapping on a Sipadan island diving resort in Malaysia last April, netting more than $425 million in ransom from European nations, Libya and Malaysia. Robot's surrender won't necessarily help the current hostages, who are being held by a different faction, but it means the Basilan-based rebels can no longer count on reinforcements?or on an easy escape route to other islands. If Commander Robot does give himself up, say palace sources, Arroyo will be there to meet him when he steps out of the jungle. Arroyo may not dwell...